The Sun. — London, England, 1838-06-05 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS. %ow ir...1 (From the Parliamentary Returns.) A Rett yr i of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One P. anny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News papers a n England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying each Ne wspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps is-sac(4. each M onth during that period to each Newspaper. EXTRACT. Lt )NDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. The 3 3n...Dee. 1837 ...... ......... 102,000 Jan. 1838 ............... 111,000 Feb. 1 838........, 96,000 Mar. 18 38......,,..„.... 'lll,OOO Standard... Dec. 1837.., --- 78-f:J00 Jan. 1838. Feb. 183 F, lOO,OOO Mar. 18°,8 lOO,OOO --- Globe DEC. 1837 72,000 Jan . 1838 90,000 Fr b. 1838 72,000 Ylar. 1838 72,000 420,000 383,000 ''oath: r..... Dec. 1837.. Jan. 1838 39,000 Feb. 1838 ......... 33,000 Mar. 1838 33,000 ,`,306,000 136 ,000 HIGH WATER AT LONDON FRIDGE TO-MWARONV - . M0rning........ 19 minutes ati-er 0 I Evening 47 tr.mutrs otter 0 The publication of Tr ig SUN ♦'NEWSPAPER ccmmenced this day at 10 minutes past Three (1' Clock. 7 ic,„.co r isS , „ - 1, 2 4 ,-, axm. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : TUESr J AY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1838. We muse dwell on the unhappy disturbances at Canter bury, becar .se it adds one to the many proofs of the mis chief whir ;11 the established Church of England now in flicts on the community. The whole of Catholic Ireland, Dissent in England, and even Presbyterian Scotland, not with,l.anding the labours of Dr. CHAMBERS in behalf cf the Established Church, will consider this lamentable event in 'connection with it. The Catholics and the Dissenters are exposed to: serious political grievances for its bellied; .11the Preebytesians, and particularly the Seceders, are placed - somewhat bebew the members of the Established Church, at least in spl..endonr and destinction, and they w ill think of their humiliating position when they trace in the events a't Canterbury its true character. To Ireland poli tical 'ireedom with equality of rights is denied that this Church may be continued in its insulting superiority. On. the Dissenters a grievous burden is imposed to keep la order temples which cannot, at least, save the people from the grossest delusions. It is not, in fact, amongst the peasentry only that they have prevailed, but thousands in the Cathedral sdty itself—the very heart of the Church —placed a c'onfidence in the lunatic quite equal to that of the 'ignorant peasants. Well may the Dissenters object to, Church -rates, and the Catholics to tithes for the suppe,rt of such a Church, not only on account of the pe cureary loss, but because the institution promotes igno ra'ace and fanaticism. It would be a mistake indeed to 'suppose that the existence, in such a remarkable extent, of these qualities, in and about Canterbury, is an accident ; they are the consequences of the exertions continually made by a numerous body of well-paid Clergy to prevent and tocrush every kind of knowledge hostile to their domination, and of the only instruction which they vouchsafe 'to give. When the •whole of our internal policy hinges on the Established Church—when its influence retards political improvement —when it can almost make and unmake ministries, and at least can control their actions—such lamentable and rnu!ti plied proofs as we now have of its baneful effects on the .aracter of the population are of great political importance. Under that aspect the events at Canterbury will be consi dered in every part of the empire. The Herald of this morning, in an article which we in zed, and of which we can speak only with approbation, offers a sort of defence of the first arrest Of COURTENAY, by saying that " it is an offence against the law and the QUEEN'S peace, for a number of persons to be riotously and routously assembled, and to go about the country armed with bludgeons in such a manner as was calculated to Create terror in the minds of the QUEEN'S subjects." That may be the law, but some depositions before Magistrates are required that persons have riotously assembled before warrants can be issued to arrest them. A Magistrate being present on the spot, and witnessing the breach of the public peace, may arrest the offending individuals ; but " Magistrate was present, no depositions appear to have been taken, and no proper precautions were adopted after the warrants were issued to ensure the peaceable and suc cessful arrest of the lunatic. But what if there should have been no such warrants issued ? Before the Coroner, as reported, MEARS, the constable, swore that he went to " execute three warrant: ;" before the Magistrates yester day,at Feversham, presided over by Dr. POORE, the principal agent in the whole proceedings, and who must have known whether MEARs was stating what is accurate, he deposed, we presume on oath, "that he went with his brother to execute the writ against COURTENAY." D. EDWARDS repeats these words also, we believe on oath, and states that " he went with the last witness to execute the writ on COURTENAY.' W e cannot suppose that this word twice repeated in the presence of Dr. POORE, is an error ; and if it be not an error, COURTENAY was to be arrested or. a civil writ, not on a criminal warrant. That circumstance, with the total absence of all proof that any depositions were made before any Magistrate, to justify the issue of warrants, makes us repeat that we see no good reason for the first attempt to arrest COURTENAY, and no legal proof, nor shadow of legal proof has been exhibited, that prior to the brutal murder the lunatic had been guilty of any legal offence. Our Contemporary has properly directed public atten tion to the Fact of COURTENAY having been notoriously a madman, which rendered him legally incapable of com mitting a crime, and it opens up the doubt how far the deluded and lunatic followers could be considered in the eye of the law legally accessaries, when in its eye no crime had been committed. But if that be a correct view, and if the Magistrates even suspected that Coo RTENAY was a madman, how much does that enhance the folly or even the guilt of the second hasty and injudicious arrest. It must have been known to the Magistrates that only COURTENAY, end at most one of his followers had fire arms ; they must have been aware that the number of the deluded did not exceed forty ; they had a hundred well-trained and well armed soldiers ; they had a con,iderable number of civil assistants, constables, policemen, and book-keepers, also armed, at least as well as the forty ; they had all the peace ful community around with them ; and to us, therefore, it appears that their mode of attempting to arrest the madman and his deluded followers was wholly unwarranted. They will have to answer then to the country for the blood which has been shed, while some of them, we see, are presump tuously and wickedly talking of she :ding more. While the Herald adopts and enforces out:view as to the conduct of the gallant but unfortunate Lieutenant BENNET, it is hardly, we think, severe enough on the Reverend Doctor POORE, by whose directions the soldiers loaded their muskets with ball, and who gave the magis terial order to take COURTENAY dead or alive. The hasty proceedings of this Reverend Gentleman, whether the off spring of terror or fiery courage we cannot say, seem to u s to be most to blame. By the Court yesterlay over which he presided, a man of the name of NEWMAN, apprehended by mistake on a warrant issued by the Rev. Dr. POORE, was discharged, after three days loss of liberty and loss of labour, That is only one of the Reverend Ma gistrate's mistakes ; and we should like to know h ow this poor vi c ti m o f c l er i c al and magisterial negligence is to be compen sa t e d f or hi s sufferings ? We think th e fact, however, of the committal by mistake is of the utmost importance, as a confirmatory evidence of the manner in which the Magistrates have acted throughout the transac tiers. But after the Rev. Dr. POORE gave orders to take COUItTENAY dead or alive—after 're had :ed one hundred armed soldiers, and a number of other followers, against a band of kty unarmed and deluded countrymen, headed by a lunatic—after, through his instrumentality, several of these unfortunate men had been killed and several wounded ; idtiu- he had, acting in the name of the law, caused one man to be imprisoned wrongfully for three days, he tellS some of the survivors who are not to be hanged, as their com panions may T,l.obably be, and who 7vere discharged, to " recollect not only that the law has extended its mercy to ycu, but also that you are bound to shoa• gratitude for it." The Rev, Or. PooltE speaks of these men as if they had coratrated a great crime, in having been deluded by a lama ' lie into a belief that he was endowed with miraculous power ; and he supposes that they ought to show gratitude to the law, because they were neither shot nor hanged for their folly. How long is it since the Rev. Gentleman ascertained that such a belief is a crime ? As for the law, the poor, deluded, neglected peasantry could only know it as he administered it, and he had sent one man to prison by mistake, and had, by means of a large body of military, put to death, in the name of the law, a number of persons whose chief offence consisted in having been deluded into the belief that ano ther Messiah had come to relieve them from their poverty and wretchedness. Such language and such sentiments may °possibly suit the very ignorant and mueli-dduded persons in and about Canterbury, but it will 'be watched and weighed by the intelligent inhabitants of our large coif. mercial and manufacturing towns, and among them will find no sympathy. Before men can be grateful to the law, it must become just, and must he administered in wisdom and mercy. To preserve the obedience even of mankind, to say nothing of their gratitude, the law must bear a very different character from that which it assumes as admini tered by the Reverend Dr. PouRE. As the Copyright Bill goes into Committee to-mor row, it may not be amiss to draw the attention of Honourable Members once more to sonic of the main points of the question. On the principle of the Bill little need be said, as that has been already recognised and approved of by the House in a former stage. Nobody whose opinion is of any value now ventures to call in question the propriety of relaxing the fetters which an unjust law has imposed upon literary property, and of re storing to authors, if not the full measure, at least of a portion, of those rights which before the passing of that law they enjoyed, in common with tile other classes of their fellow-citizens. We hear no one now pretending to say that for an author to possess the exclusive right of selling the single crude which he himself creates is a monopoly, or the same tieing as if a trader were to engross the entire sale of a conzmorlity. Neither is it now whispered, that because the proposed change in the law may by possibility make books a little dearer to the public than they would otherwise be, therefore a principle manifestly unjust and oppres sive towards authors once intro3uced must be perpe tuated ; inasmuch es it has been hammered into the heads of objectors of this class, that by a very simple pro cess, namely, the repeal of the duty on paper, not only would the whole evil of this much dreaded contingency be avoided, but books would be made much cheaper, and tile claims of justice maintained inviolate. The argument drawn front the inestimable value of knowledge to the people, and the consequent impolicy, nay injustice, of tax ing it, has been given up as untenable, since it involves this startling paradox, that those who are the creators cf this invaluable and indispensable commodity, and therefore by r.o very strained inference, the greatest of all public benefactors, are to be made the Gibeonites of the commu nity, and treated as if they were unworthy of the protection which the law extends to all other men. All these ridiculous phantasies have disappeared, and the objections of the publishers arc now limited to what is called the retrospective tendency of the Bill. The adoption of this term is a cunning device. A retro spective law carries with it a prejudice. Its very name implies injustice, and therefore it is no bad policy in the opponents of the Bill to christen it by this opprobrious name. But, as has been well shesvn by a Morning Con temporary, from whose columns we have extracted an article on this question, and whose cordial and able support of • this measure does him great credit, there is in the Bill of Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD nothing whatever of a retrospective tendency. If the Bill be made retrospective, it will be by the introduction into it of the absurd and tin ' just amendments of Sir EDWARD SUDDEN. We have, however, no fears on this head. We arc sure that in a question, divested as this is of all party feeling, the Legisla ture will decide according to right. We find that Colonel THOMPSON has offered himself for Yarmouth, to defeat a compromise by which Mr. BARING, the rejected Tory candidate, was to walk in by tying up some of the leading Reformers of that town. The Gallant Colonel is a sound Reformer, and his writings have been of very great value to the important cause of Free Trade, and the abolition of the Corn Laws. There was only one thing against him, and that was his conduct at the last Maryle bone election. As this matter appears to have been cleared up by the Parliamentary Agent who represented him at Yarmouth, there is now nothing to prevent our most cor dially wishing him success, and that he may soon again take his constant seat in the House of Commons to vote for the just interests of the people. We are not without hopes that the late occurrences in Kent will be followed by good results. The ignorance of our rural population, particularly in the South, has been long admitted, but never manifested to such an extent, or with such alarming symptoms, as within the last few years. It was the chief cause of those incendiary fires which broke out among the men of Kent—which spread over so many counties in the South, and which, like the last outbreak, caused the needless sacrifice of so many lives. None but a people who, according to a Tory paper, are objects of the deepest commiseration for the profoundness of their igno rance, and their worse than barbarous credulity, would have had recourse to such deeds of folly, in order to better their condition. Talk of the ignorance and superstition of the lower classes in Catholic countries, after this The Catholics in Ireland, and Spain, and Switzerland, and France, for whom our Bible Societies display so much solicitude, may well wonder at our folly in attempt ing to communicate to them useful knowledge, while we leave our own bold peasantry sunk in the lowest depths of ignorance, and our Protestant clergy raise their voices against allowing any education to the people of Ire land, but on conditions similar to those on which it is corn munieated to the men of Kent. The reformation has been productive of great benefits only in those countries where it has been carried out in the true spirit of Reform. In Holland, Germany, and Scotland, the lower classes have been benefitted by it to an in calculable extent, but in England it has hardly commenced. The English Church is practically as dogmatical as the Catholic, and though professing to Mach the people, and to allow every man to judge for him self, it virtually keeps the great proportion of the lower classes in as profound ignorance as the POPE or any Catholic Prelate could desire. It acts " the dog in the manger" in the most beautiful manner. It will neither teach, nor allow others to teach. We knew with what determina tion it opposed the inquiry, instituted by Lord BnoucHam, into the abuses in educational charities, over which the Clergy alone preside—what obstacles they throw in the way of national education for Ireland—and we also know that this will oppose Lord BROUGHAM'S Education Bill, unless so cut and carved to their own fancy, and so mutilated as to be worse than useless. Our consolation, therefore, for the late calamity is, that if it will not change the disposition of the Clergy, it will open the eyes of the landed proprie tors, and convince them that they cannot expect to remain in a state of security, while the great mass of the people are incapable of judging between good and evil, and liable to be excited into mutiny by every designing fanatic. Our Portsmouth Correspondent has forwarded to us file s of New York, Charleston, Boston, and Montreal Papers— the latest of the 10th ult.—brought by the packet-ship Montreal, which arrived there yesterday. The Charles ton journals are of the 3d—the day set apart as a solemn fast to propitiate the awful vengeance of Heaven, believed by the inhabitants to be manifested in the late destruc tion of their beautiful city. It was calculated that about one thousand fine buildings were destroyed, of which half the inmates were slaves. The loss was estimated at four millions of dollars. Croributions for the relief of the sufferers were pouring in from all quarters ; and in every State a willingness had been maniestA to al leviate the distresses of the people of Charleston by Ilbera subaeriptions. Columbia, i❑ the State of Cincinnati, con tribute(' 9,600 dollars ; Augusta 6,000 dollars, and three individuals had given 2,700 collars tcwar(ls the relief fund. As far, therefore ; as regards property, the inhabitants of Charleston will soon find themselves in as prosperous a condition as they were he7ore the late destrucf ve fire. But while covering thf_msolves with sackcloth and ashes — while acknowledging the chastising hand of a merciful GOD in the late calamitous visitation—is it not strange to behold the consciences of the citizens so scared as to blind them to the enormity of the slave traffic ? In the penitent enu meration of their sins, wherefore is the imposition of letters upon their fellow-creatu:es omitted? _ _ _ The papers from Lot;•er Canada are of the 7th of May, but they bring no news of interest. The St. Lawrence was then na%izable as high up as Montreal. Maitial law was wholly abolished in the Lower Province. . From New York our. intelligence relates exclusively to the state of the Money Market on the first resumption of cash payments, which took place on the 9th. This event would have caused a great stir had it not been for a large shipment of gold to Philadelphia on that day, which ab sorbed all the attention of commercialists and journalists. We copy from the city article of the New York Daily iVhig of the I Oth, the following paragraph respecting it, penned, of course, the day preceding : This morning there went to Philadelphia nearly two millions of dollars in foreign gold. Two explanations of this movement have been given. Our paper says that it was bought by the agent of the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania. Another journal goes into a long and plausible disquisition upon the relations of the United S'ates Bank and the Bank of England, and intimates that this movement is in some way connected with the cotton market and a reconciliation of the cliiferences behsecn Mr. Jaudon and the Court of Directors. The Commercial bolds the fit st opinion, or rather advances the statement as matter of fact. The Express puts forth the latter argument, and there is a good deal of plausibility about it. Our own opinion, however, inclines to the :tatemcnt that the vain was purchased by the agent of the Banh. Of one thing we may be assured, that if this has been the nature of the transaction, no great gain has been realised by the impot tation. The same writer states that the prosircts of Banks under the general Bank law, just adopted, are en3ouroging. In his opinion, were the capitalists to rouse themselves and trust one another, they could realize 15 per cent. on their investments. There was some talk about the getting up of a petition in Wall -street, praying Mr. BIDDLE to esta blish a Bank in New York, but we know not what degree of credit we ought to attach to it. Specie to the amount of 350,000 dollars had been brought from London to New York by the packet-ship Wellington. Other sums were in the course of transfer from the Southern States. Never theless, there was a sort of panic that BIDDLE would swal!ow up all the gold and silver as fast as this currency could make its appearance—nay, that he would devour all the precious metals in the vaults of all the great houses in New York. So much for the effect of his terrible letter upon the mercantile imaginations of the New Yorkers. The following is a summary of the Rate of Exchanges and the Prices of Stock, in Wall-street, on the 9th—a few Lours after the resumption of specie payments : SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 9. 50 Shams United States Bank 1 day 1164 50 do. do. do 1 this week 116 50 do. do. do. 50 do. do. do. ... 8 3 days 11G 20 do. Bank State of N._,v York .• 1 day 93 10 do. do. do cash 91i 40 do. Mechanics Bank 1 day 100 60 de. Pliconix Eank 1 day 101 '25 do. Delaware and Hudson Canal .. 71 100 do. Long Island Railroad Co bGO days 571 Treasury Notes, 2 per cent., SOO dollars 99,4 Do. do. bearing 5 per cent. int., 500 dollars Do. do. bearing 6 per cent. int. .., 99i NEWPORT, MAY 7, 1638. SIIIPWRECK. — The schooner Jasper, Hambletnn, of and for New York from Boston, went ashore on the east end of Block Island, on Sa turday morning, at three o'clock. The schooner has bilged, and will pro.. bably be lost—the cargo will mostly be saved in a damaged state. They made a bonfire of all Marryatt's works to be found at and near Lewistown, New York, because the Gallant Captain gave the Caroline toast at Toronto. By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at Falmouth, on Sunday from the Tagus, we have received adv ices from Lisbon of the 30th ult. The Custom-House receipts were rapidly declining, owing to the high-rate of the tariff, which afforded every inducement to smuggling. The Portuguese Government had not signed the Slave Trade Suppression Treaty with England, so that our Government will be compelled to adopt compulsory measures to carry its provisions into effect. In the Southern Provinces the Miguelites are again disturbing the peace of the quiet vil lages. The Paris journals of Sunday have ail been received, but their contents are of no political interest. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday a pension of 100,000 francs was voted to the widow of MURAT, the ex-Queen of Naples, and sister of NAPOLEON, now recognised as the Countess of Lipona. It is remarkable that the Countess' relation ship to the EMPEROR was admitted on all sides to give her a claim to the beneficence of France. During the de bate the memory of MURAT was branded for his in gratitude to his Imperial Master, while NAPOLEON was spoken of as one of the most illustrious names in the annals of Europe. As MITRAT's property in France has been confiscated to the use of the reigning Royal Family, the KING, to silence the clamours of his widow, supported the measure with all his influence. Letters from Hanover, of the 28th, announce the cele bration of the birth-day of the Crown Prince on the day preceding. The Prince was complimented by the several Foreign Ministers at present in Hanover. We have no news from Spain later than the 27th ult. M. GAitcrA had then proposed to contract for a loan of 2,000,000,000 of reals, payable in monthly instal ments, 25,000,000 of reals at 5 per cent. interest, provided that as security for the repayment of the principal and in terest the product of all the mines in the Peninsula be made over to the contractors. Annexed are the only extracts in the Papers worth communicating : A letter from Toulon, 29th May, giving an account, dated from the Camp of Medjez Hamer, of 17th May, of the operations of General Negrier, says General Negrier h a d scarce ly returned to C o nstantine, when he learned that th e E x- B ey, A c h me t, h av i ng co llected under his orders several thousand Kabyles, had: just made an unexpected attack on some tribbs subject to France, which were plundered. The moveable column was to quit the city again, and march against Achmet, who will doubtless retreat into the desert of Biscara on the approach of our troops. Some shocks of an earthquake have been felt at Constantinople ; hap pily no damage was done. The expeditionary column has arrested three Arabs who are accused of assassination.—Journal des Debats. BAYONNE, MAY 30.—1 t is reported that the Court Martial, consisting of general officers, which was sitting in the village of Arbudenza, to try Generals Elio and Zariategui, has passed upon them sentence of death for high treason. It is affirmed that immediately after the communica tion of the sentence to the troops, the Navarrese battalions and two squadrons stationed at Villa Tuerta, mutinied, and proceeded, without officers, against Estella! The division of General Diego was on the 25th at Olcoz ; the brigade of Lebrun occupied the village of Unclosella. TUIE SUN, LONDON, TITESDAY„TUNE 5, is3B. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) WICK V. WALKER. The arguments in this part.heard appeal were resumed and concluded to-day. The Loan CHANCELLOR postponed giving judgment. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) PARKE V. BROOKES. This cafe, which was part heard yesterday, came before the Court, upon motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant from electing a wall opposite certain windows belonging to the plaintiff; In Market. street, Manchester. His HoNova. refused to grant the injunction, but gave leave to the plai ntiff to bring an action to e s ta blish the fact th at the windows were ancient lights. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) David Rieley, a sawyer, was ordered to pay a fine of 405., or be sent to prison for two months, for violently kicking a constable in the chest last night in Drury-lane, and threatening to stab him wit h a fork on his attempting to take him into cu stod y for quarrellin g with his wife and family. oSqvueapntig before his door of rubbi s h an d Thomas Evans, a greengrocer in lltingerford.market, and hi s assist ant, John Green, were charged by an other person in th e same trade Jeklitfe, with assaulting him. thi l a t m a o p r p n e i a n r g ed , htelisaatwwthhielelatthteercdmonfpenladiana,tct a w quantity complainant was lle in leave it at his door. The complainant remonstrated with him, and he was answered in a very rude manner, and saluted with a blow of the broom. were not w t i l t i h e , stick across the nose. The other defendant came to the assistance of his servant, and a scuffle having taken place, the policeman found the par property. ties pumelling each other most lustily with their broomsticks, to the amusement of several persons, who seemed anxious to let the comba tants have fair play. y th \ e ve ! aggressors, and they were ordered to put in bail. In answer to the charge, thi‘eiadreyfe jiici,alyn,t,sihdeeic,,loatrhedertohre Mary Brien and Hanrah Daly, both of Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, were charged on suspicion by It appeared that the old lady, who is a dealer in fruit and vegetables, stealing the sum of 43.43 d., and a gold wedding ring, h er went out yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, having p rev i ously depo. sited her ring and money in a box, in the presence of the prisoners, and on her return last night at eight o'clock the articles were gone and the prisoners were found beastly drunk in a neighbouring publi c _h ouse. The prisoners declared they Inew nothing whatever of the robbery, as they had left the room shortly after the complainant scent out to market. They were ordered to be discharged. - - DUKE OF GORDON.—The sum intended for efect ing a monument to the memory of the late Duke of Gordon, in the county of Elgin, is completed, and contractors ore wanted for carryin,7 on the sttucture. This will be the first of the series (f mcmurnelits to be erected in the northern counties, in memory of the late Duke.-1, verness Courier. LLOYD%s SHIPPING.—!), Y DEAL, JUNE 4. —Wind, W.S. W., fine.—Arrived and proceeded for the river, the Harriet, Cierin:! . , from Grenada; Carnatic, Brodie, from Bombay; Codrington, Gayner, front Antigua; Duke of Argyle, Bris tow, from China; Reward, from Jamaica; Westbreak, from ditto. Came down from the river, the Elizabeth, Midwinter, tin• Grenada; Eel Fowls, Spittall ; for the Cape. of Good Hope; Erasmus, Marks, for Bata% ia; George Hume, for Coromandel; Julia, and several other turned away this morning to the westward. Potirsmourtr, JUNE 4.—Wind IV.S. W., fine.—Arrived the Montreal, Griffing, front New York. PLymourtt, Jusz 3.—Wind S.W.— Arrived off, the Augusta Jesse, horn Sydney; Ewretia, from ditto; Thames, Wolfe, froni Calcutta. FALmorrn, JUNE 3.—Wind S.S. W. to S.W., fresh breezes, wi,h rain. Arrived the Swift, packet, from Halifax. Sailed the 14th ult. the Braganza (steamer) for Gibralrar—left •35th ult., Cadiz 26th, Lisbon SOih, and Oporto Nigo 31st ; Hector, Iliersing, for Rio Janeiro—sailed 23d March. Vessus SPOKEN \VITU.—The brig Britannia, of Liverpool, for Trieste, on the Ist, in lat. 49 N. long. 8 15 \V. by the Hector. On the 17;h May, in lat. 41 12 N long. 55 10 W., fell in with the wreck of a brig of about 200 tons, water logged and abandoned; she had a man bust head, With an helmet, foremast and bowsprit standing, name on stem Union, (or Unite) of St. John's; and on the 3lit, in lat. 48 28 N. long. 16 50 \V , passed the Paragon, of Bristol, and several home ward bound ships in the Channel, by the Swift packet. Lmarioor,, Just: 4.—Wind variable a , d light. Arrived the Con cord, Wesley, from Tencrifre; Alexander Lecata Der Lachs, Jansen, from Dantzic. Arrived riff port the Otterspool, —, from Calcutta; Golden Fierce, from Pernambuco; Amethyst, from Trinidad; Bolivar, from Barbadoes; Lees, from do.; Marwood, from Sicily. MACGATE, Juss 4 —Atrived off, Admiral Lake, Frazer, Grenada. COWES, JUNE 4. Arrived the St. Lawrence, Bunker, from Batavia. STA RC ROSS, JUNE 4.—Arrived the Racer, Too - ,;ood, from Monte Video, PENZANCE, JUNE 4. Arrived the Maria, Tngerman, from Batavia; Therese, Grkland, from Pernambuco ; Fanny, Lindstrom, from New Orleans ; and Louise, from Lisbon. PORTLAND, JUNK 4.--Arrived off, Franklin, Howland, New Bedford. SWANSEA, JUNE B.—Arrived the Star, 1{0.5, from St. Jago de Cuba. \VD STEHATEN, JUNE 4.—Arrived Campbell, itnlinn, from Antigua. OFF THE JUNE .I.—Arrived Lord Llungerford, Calcutta. Coati, JUNE o.—Arrived of?, Caledonia, Pilliken, from New Orleans. The Horace, Foss, from New Orleans to Liverpool, was totally wicked near llennebunk, during a gale Gth ult.—crew saved. The Persian, liepton, from Valparaiso, arrived at Bahia with part of the cargo thrown over—bound to Swansea. MONEY AND COMI'4I.EI/CIAL NEWS. CITY ( THIS D.IY ), TWELVE O'CLOCK. The New York packet-ship of the 10th May, the Montreal, has ar rived by which New York papers to the 11th May have been received. They state that their 'Banks have fully and fearlessly resumed specie payments, and placed themselves on the ancient footing in every respect. A New Orleans paper states that two official persons have been sent from Tampico to Vera Cruz, to endeavour to settle the French demand, which is stated to amount now to a million and a half cf dollars. Ex, change on London, (ii 7; United States, Bank Stock, 1161 a. A Montreal Paper of the 6th May has the following:— As must have been foreseen on the passing of the ordinance for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, martial law has ceased to exist in this district. The last official Gazette contains a proclamation by his Excellency, declaring that martial law, as proclaimed on the sth De cembdr last, in the district of Montreal, shall cease on the publication of the proclamation. Wenaticed in our last the arrival, via Lachine canal, of a considera. ble quantity of produce. Since then, owing to unfavourable winds, no adOitional supplies have come forward. The transport of produce this year, will be principally on the Rideau route, aed the tariff same as last year. Exchange, the Bank draws at Si per cent.; Private may be 71 to 8 per cer t. premium." We have received Gibraltar Chrenicks to the 25th Slay; as usual, the iccounts in them are not of so late a date from the theatre of war in Spain, as by the French papers ar.d telegraphs. From Malta papers to the 17th May, we extract the following:— " We have received papers from Athens, to the 3d instant, and tatters of a later date, which announce the restoration of order in Hydra, and the return to that Island of Governor Packmore. Letters from Syra men. tion that trade is very dull there; the value of goods, principally British manufacture, laying in the transit stores, is calculated at two millions and half drachms, and no sales: can be effected. On the 3d instant a Greek vessel arrived from Jaffa, having the plague on board. . . . - . - We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the sth of April. We subjoin the following " EMIGRANT Boy us.—ln a letter from Graham's Town, March 23, the writer states, on what he thinks good authority, that the remainder of the Troll Boers are returning, and that some are re-purchasing farms in the Tarka district. No additional intelligence was received last week respecting the fate or proceedings of those unfortunate people belonging to Retie', and the advanced party. A correspondent states As the ex amination of the mutineers proceeds, proofs come out that the Caffers refused to join in the mad scheme." TOTAL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS T 'o alealSimon's 8ay.... X23'2,931 x, 230,531 Port Elizabeth lmports. { 17,600 _ _ _ _ Export , : 81,747 Sydney papers, to the 16th of January, have the following :—" Wool exported during the year, 19,933 bales, from which it is evident that the clip must have been considerably over 20,000 bales." New Brunswick papers, received to the sth of ,flay: they are void of interest, now the affairs of Canada are in a settled state. THE FITNE3. Consols, which closed yesterday at 956 for the Account, and 941 for Money, opened this morning at the same quotations. Exchequer Bills, 67 69 ; Bank Stock, 20-I ? i j 205. In the Foreign Market, the chief have been in Portuguest? Stock, will; operations, up to the present time, r.,11 receded from yesterday's prices, tvourable intel:igence from Lisbon; 21 to 221 ; Brazilian, 80i 81 ; ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per fISI, to 361, owing to the very unf Spanish Active also rather lower, . _ Mexican, 26 27; Colombian, 27: Cents. lower, 5•4 A PRIcEs OF' STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pank Stock 3 per Ccnt. ',l- '1:13{,94 4 34. i ‘Attte MortOs 3 per Ccnt..Cons. ....... .....45 4:3.i T, % South 3,a S , etls. — •?..% pot Cent— ~....... ........ Old Annnittt.., Dtto lied New 334 per Cent. lO2l .?,,,, 3 re, Cent. Annuities, 1751_ New 5 per Cent.— .............,.... Exch. 8i11tt,:51,1'0 , .... ..... 69 6 7 um 61 - tn 'd 1.1 - ,:.R Ann ulties tc. ex pire Ditto 9.51 69 67 pm Jan. 5. 1840... Oct. 10, 1890 —( Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1460.... ..... ........ Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, IMO — Wank Stock for Acc0unt........ April o, ii , 80... ..... Jan. % 1870.... ......... , — , Consols fo r A ccoun t PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Auitrian Bonds :, ...... Belgian Bonds ..... ...... ...... Ditto Account..... ...... ... , Portiquo6oßontis......... ........ .. Brazilian Bortis .. 80% Otto New Bonds 3514 Ditto Account Ditto Account ... '36% 6 % Baerioa Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per cent.... ........ Ditto Accunt Ditto Account :) 474%'!- . 4 Chillian Bonds. ................ Pria,sl"..ri Bonds -. Ditto Accoun# Colemblan Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account Cilurnbian Bonds, :524 27% Spanish Bonds.— ........ Ditto Account . 2774 Ditto Account — Dinish Bonds ......—.. 'MU') Account .. Ditto Account .2% 1i Greek Donets ' '''''''''''' French, 5 per cent.......... —t. —, Ditto Bonds, 1825 — -- 1 per cent —l. —c. 'Att.:: Account .......... ....... —— 3 per cent. Mexican Bon:, 5 pi,r cent... 22 - Exchan g e Ditto Account ....... ......... Dutch, .2% per cent 95 1 i% % t, i Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account 26% Ditto, 9 per cant lOl Neapolitan — Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company Edi nburgh and Glasgow b 9 Great We s t ern R ailway Company 65 Bri ghton Railway Comp a ny 8 London and Blackw a ll Rail wa y Ly ndon and Birmi ng h a m Railrray Company 9O 175 I nn4on and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 15% London and Southampton (New) Railway lO 294 4 4 ~ . anchester an d Bi rm i ng h am Ra i1 way........ Do. Do_ Extension North Midl and Railway Company. 35 4,1% 1 Asphalt°, Claridge' Patent Do British 1 13,4 Bitumen, Bast enne an d G au j ac Do. l'olon ceau 2 2 B ritish North Am er i can B an k London and Westminster Ban ,- 20 2134 Van Dieman' s L an d A gr i cu l tura l Company l7' 1:U E, lIALF-PA ST OA ~ Consols are a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, when they were 9.58 4 for Account, Money 941 a ; at present may be quoted 95i, Money 941 ; Exchequer Bills, 67 prem. ; Indian Bonds, 74; Bank Stock, 204 1 ; Indian ditto, 2701. In the Foreign Market Spapish Active, 211 22, with Coupons; Portuguese rather improved, 361 ; Three per Cents., 24 1; Brazilian, SO} St ; Mexican, 26, 27; Columbian, 27k; Dutch Two and. a-half, 55k. In the Share Market rather more business doing in the railroads, but the prices have not improved. Brighton declined to I prem. ; Claridge's Asphalte fallen to 7 prem; in other Asphaltes not much doing. THREE O' CL CK. Consols for the Account 05,1 1. -- -- — — THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Rcel 3 per Cent. Cons B4%lDitto Old Annuities... — 3!2 per Cent — 'Ditto New Annuities 3)i per Cent. lied Int l .:; I Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2)...',.(1 68 pm. New 3y4 per Cent 102',', Ditto 500/ (18 Kr. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 68 inr. . Jan. 186 ) ... Bank Stock for Opg. %.704 Oct. ISM Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. 701, Belgian, 5 npr cent — Ditto New Ditto .... Brazilian BOnds fo4; Prussian, 5 per coat Buenos A yr. s, 6 per cent — 'Russian Bonds, 5 per cent Chiiian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic. Colombiam, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 2')4 Ditto, 1824 :.'7)4 Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent 74a French, 5 per cent. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f —c Mexican, 5 per cent 224 French, :1 per cent —f. —, Ditto, It per cent., 1825 t26.,, :hitch '214 per cent. 55 Peruv i a n, 1825,6 per cent. Ditto, per cent. lOl% (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY). Edinburgh and Glasgow Rai lway 47( r Great Western Railway 94;4 London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway Loudon and Birmingham Railway London and Greenwich Railway London and Southampton (New) 9. 9 1, Manchester and Birmingham Railway Ditto Ditto Extension North Midland Railway National Loan Fund is A petition in course of signature, praying for the of the groat works of the "divine Raffaelle," to the new .Na. removal tional Gallery, or to some. other public building, where they may be more easy of access to artists than they can be rendered in the comparatively remote palace of Hampton Court. A Mr. James Taylor, of and for whose existence the public had previously neither heard nor cared, has bean enacting the part of Doll Quixote on behalf of Mrs. Wheeler, the late mistress of the Red Maids' School, and, in conjunction with other contributory to the columns of our Tory contemporary, not so Quixotic, seeing that they come to the m .tier incog.—as " a Churchman" and the like, im pugning the conduct of the Trustees, not only in the removal of this lady, but in their management of the children with reference to their earthly and " eternal welfare !"—Bristol Mercury. THE SAILOR AND TIIE CHINAMAN.—The fol lowing morsel of polite conversation took place one day between Jack Hoppo and one of the petty officers, to whom he considered himself in.. dcbted, and wanted to be quit of the obligation. "In England so, you catclice will), can ?" " Yes, I've got a wife, what or that ?" " You catcher alio, can ?" " One child, .Jack; well ?" "Bull chilo, cow chito?" yes, I've one little girl ; w h y d o you ask 5 " " An, yah I can do!" replied Jack Hoppo, with great. exultatim. " You catche w rbilo ! I catchee flovrero, all same put round bead cow chilo." ; ug ly, the next day, the sailor received a Present of a small box of art f cial flowers, to be put round the head of 1)13 little girl when he returnci to England. — The Fan-qui in China ELECTION COMMITTEES. THIS DAY. DEFEAT OF THE TORIES-MAIDSTONE. The Committee :net this mo7ning at eleven o'clock. Mr. TLLWJT said he was instruct:Al by Mr. rector, whom he repre sented, to aLate, that after the decision to which this Committee came yesterday with respect to the al'eged agmcy of Mr. Potts, that he must respectfully decline to contend further for this return befc•n; the Co.n. melee. lle could not conceive to what extent he might be fixed by the acts of other parties. He knew that over them he had no control— that he had no connection with them—and Ise therefore declined to mate himself responsible for those acts, and thought the shortest way to ac complish that was to retire from the seat. Mr. AUSTIN said—ln consequence of the manner in which his Learned Friend had come forward and consented that a verdict should pass against him on the score of bribery, he ielt hound to say that with ref rence to Mr. Fector himself, he should not have proposed to fix him with personal bribery; there was no evidence to that effect. The charge was that the election was void in 'consequer ce of the return having been obtained by bribery; and also that the agents of Mr Fector hr.d com. mitted that bribery. His Learned Friend had admitted that he could not defend the scat on that charge, and the Committee must therefore come to the resolution that the election was void, on the ground of bribery. The room was then 2:earcd for a short time. On our teadmi , sion, 'I tee CHAIRMAN said—l have to inform the counsel tind agents C:at the Committee have come to the following resolutions : That John Minnett Fector, Esq., is not duly returned as a burgess to serve in the present Parliatne,t tor the borough of Maidstone. That the last election for the said borough is a veld electron. That the petition cf Wm. Fish and others does not appear to this Com mittee to be frivolous or vexatious. That the opposition to the said petition does not appear to the Com.. mittee to be frivolous cr vexa'ious. WESTMEATH. At the close of yesterday's proceedings the vote of J. Anderson (PA t,cked by the petitioners) was declared to be good. The petitioners now proceeded to object to the vote of E. Lacy, on the ground of deficient quail flealon. THE MARK.ETS.-(T HIS DAY.) BILLINGSGATE MARKET. A ratter better supply to-day than yesterday, anti price of some kinds lower. Turbot, 4s. to 14s. and 153. ; Soles, good ones scarce and dear ; Mackerel, 3d. to Gd. each ; Crimped Salmon, 4s. per lb., other kinds, 10.1. and Is. Gd.; Whitings, 3d. to 4d. and si. each; Lobsters, Is. to 3s. each, (Jr good ones. IIUNGERFORD MARKET. Meat today in moderate supply, and the quality good. Trade not lively. Beef, 60. to Bd. Mutton, 7d. to Sd. Veal, Sd. to 9d. Pork, 71d. to Sid. Fish—some kinds rather cheaper. TurLot, 4s. to 15s. Soles, Is. to 3s. per pair. Lobsters, Is. to 3s. Salmon, Is. to is. lid. Vegetables much as on Saturday, and in Hay and Clover no variation. HAY-MARKETS. The supplies today again moderate, and the demand to a fair exteA. The shortness of the supplies keeps up prices. Meadow Hay 903. to 108 s ; Clover Hay 100 s. to 115 s. ; Straw 38s. to 445. BERMONDSEY WATER-SIDE POTATOE MARKET. The supplies during the past week were 1,145 tons; prices as fol low :—York Red 90s to —; ditto Kidneys 50s. to 605.; Scotch 655. to 705.; Devons up to 70s. ; Jer,ey and Guernsey Blues 50s. to 555. ; Kent, Essex, and Suffolk Whites 50$. to 555.; NVisbeach Blues 50s. ; ditto Whites 455. to 50s. COLONIAL MARKETS. An entire holiday again in these markets, and nothing whatever doing. For tomorrow we have advertised 9,605 bags Mauritius Sugar ; 4,695 bags, Mini:la ; 130 Barbacloes ; and 1,750 bads Bengal. Coffee-808 bags Ceylon, 6cl. duty; 200 casks B.P. ; 1,500 packets Rice; 840 bags Cocoa; and some small quantities of West India Gin ger and Pimento. The imports to-day were not heavy up to the time of going to press. CDAL MAR Per Tor.. S. o. Adair's lB 6 E r. - June I. eer Ton. s. el. Walls End Laraton 2l 9 Walls End Bussers'lletdon 2l 9 Walls End Stewart' r s 22 0 Walls End \Vhitwel l 2O 0 Walls En 4 Hartlepool 23 0 Walls End Adelaide 2O 6 Wals End Gordon l3 9 Walls End New Tees tval l F End Sent h 13 , hatn 26 0 Carr's Hartley 2l 0 Elolyweil Ponlop Windgor lB 9 • Walls'End Bell and Brown ... 20 9 Xv al!s End G race ..... 1.4 6 W*lls End KiHim:worth Limblon's l'rimrcse Walls End Braddyll'6 Hetton 21 9 Walls End Haswell ..... Walls End Hetton 0 Nevill's Llanelly ` 5 6 Radcliffe Main l7 6 la3t. raar4.et-aay, 25. Ships arrive:4 sir, 0. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 4. We have to report the continuance of a good demand for Cotton. The business transacted at this day's market was large, there having been 6,000 bags sold at Saturday's Prices :-300 Pernam, 9 a 9.; 50 Ma ranharn, 94; 200 Bahia, 8 a 84; 300 Surat, 4 a St ; 1,000 Egyptian, 10 al2 ; 4,150 American, 54 a 04. Total, 6,000. Her Majesty has spontaneously forwarded to the fund for erecting a monument to Nelson the magnificent donation cf 500 guineas. Her Majesty has also sent a similar sum to the Welling ton memorial. The steamer which plies between Sheerness and Chatham caught fire one day last week. She fat the former place with 14 passengers, and had not proceeded further than Kitt's-hole when the alarm was given. The consternation on board was very great; but by the ex rtions of the crew the flames were extinguished by drenching the decks plentifully with water. The boiler, it seems, was deficient of water, and it became red hot. Fortunately a barge came up at the moment, and the passengers were taken to Chatham without sustaining any injury _ _ The late rains have set the grass everywhere grow ing with a rapidity almost unexampled. _ _ IRISH PRESS.—A meeting of editors, suli-editors, and reporters of the Dublin Newspaper Press was held at the Imperial Hotel in that city, on Saturday evening last, pursuant to notice, for the purpose of considering the propriety of forming an Irish Press Association. They write from Ajaccio on the 27th ult. that the Paymaster (Payirur) Pozzo di liorgo, nephew of the Russian Ambassa dor at London, had been murdered the day before by two individuals, near that town. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners of En4land and \Vales have disposed of the perpetual advowson of the rectory of West Retford, late the property of the Corporation of East Retford, to Mr. John Hoed, of Nettleham, near Lincoln, for the sum of 2,005/. The present incumbent is about 47 years of age, and the income between 4001. and 5001. a-year.—Doncaster chronicle. • TILE - TASTE FOR TIIE HORRIBLE.-The recent horrible murder of Eliza Grimwood in the Watetloo-road has furnished a subject for the .pictorial talent of the penny showmen. This was tco rich, too sanguinary, too disgusting, to be neglected by the itinerant ca terers for the entertainment of the rising generation. Exhibitions of this character arc surely not calculated to improve the taste of children. On Saturday last, a fellow was parading the Whitechapel-road and its vicinity with " a show," representing,' as his placard stated, " the bru tall murder of Elliza Greenwood, with a correct delination of the mur derer cutting her throat, and a view or the parlour were he did it." The charge for viewing this was a penny, and the showman during the day had no lack of customers. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—ThC news of SirJolin Jefllott's untimely death by drowning, reached Exeter on the 18th of May, the anniversary of the death of the late Dr. Dennis, who fell in a duel with Sir John Jeffcott, in May 163:1—Western Times. The Wandering Piper paid another visit to Hull, on his return from York, on Tuesday, and played through our principal streets. He next visits Newcastle, Sunderland, &c. We understand from the Piper that his perigrinations are now drawing to a termination —as a small additional sum will place the contributions of this country upon an equality with the sum he received in America, and then his ex pedition ends.—Hull Advertiser. CHURCH-RATE REFUSED.—The churchwarden of Hittisleigh, having given notice of a vestry to be convened on Thursday last . ; the rate-payers assembled, when the churchwarden applied for a rate of sixpence in the pound. It was then proposed and seconded — that the meeting be adjourned till the 25th day of March next. For the adjournment, 21 ; against it, s.—Western Times. It is said that orders have been given to open Kew gardens once a-week (every Thursday) for the inspection of visitors. Though the English mail-bag is despatched across the water to Calais within a few minutes of its arrival at Dover, we have reason to believe that there is frequently considerable delay at Calais in forwarding the French bag to London. The English Consul at that port should exert himself to prevent this impediment to a very useful and important arrangement between France and England. —Morning Paper. Brutus Besoni, a shoemaker and dealer in skins, Desmarets, another of the same trade, and a woman named Dussur, were on Saturday brought before the Tribunal of Correctional Police on a charge of stealing, killing, and flaying cats, and selling their car cases to the restaurateurs of the Barriers, by whom they were to be served up as rabbits. The evidence and the denegations of the two male criminals, and the forced confessions of the woman, aflbrded much amuse. meat to the Court; but the details were too disgusting to be repeated. Besoni was sentenced to six months' emprisonment and a fine of I 001 ; Desmarets to two months' imprisonment and a fine of 100 f. ; and the woman to six months' imprisonment without a fine. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—We have been highly gratified by the great debate and decision of this venerable body, respecting the Auchterarder Case, or rather, as it is now phrased, the '' Independence of the Church." A few more such debates and deci sions would do more to promote the cause of Voluntaryism, than all the efforts of all the Dissenters in the kingdom for half a century. —Scots Times. There is now forming a new Company for the pur pose of manufacturing salt on the coast of Kent. We hear if the speculation succeeds, it is the intention of the Directors to establish their works near this place.— Kent Observer. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A coroner's in quest has lately been held on the body of a woman of the name of Brown, wife of a journeyman painter, &c. when it appeared in evidence that she had set her clothes on fire, and stood firm in the middle of the room until literally burnt to a cinder.—Skerborne Journal. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Friday an inquest was held in St. George's Hospital, before Mr. Higgs, on view of the body of Nicholas Cramer, Esq., aged 71, a native of Cologne. \Vm. Sherlock, police-constable A division, No. 125, deposed that about half-past eleven o'clock on the morning of the 17th of May, he was on duty in Kensing ton-gardens, when he observed the deceased enter BuckhilLgate, which is nearly opposite the Crown Tavern , Bayswater. He (deceased) walked towards a retired part of the gardens. About five minutes befin e twelve o'clock witness discovered the deceased stretched on the ground under a tree. He had inflicted a dreadful wound across his throat; a razor and clasp knife, the blades of which were covered with blcod, were lying on the grass close beside him. He was alve, but could not articulate ; he motioned to witness not to disturb him, and endeavoured to strike his head against the trunk of a tree. Want:3s obtained the assistance of six men who were working on the Bayswater road, who conveyed the deceased on a hurdle to the above hospital. Several vipers and docu ments were four..l on the person of the deceased which led to his identity, and from which it appeared, at the time of his melancholy death, he oc- S cu pi e d apartments in Duke-strett,t. James's. A gen tl emen pres ent, a friend of the deceased, said that he had of late suffered from great de spondency, owing to the sudden death of a beloved son about a month back. Other witnesses spoke to the deceased's disordered state of mind. The house-surgeon said the deceased died on the 09th of May from the . eff,cts of the wound. Verdict—" Temporary Der ange ment." There is now living at Darlton, near Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, a man and his wife, of the name of Brett, above 93 years of age each, who have been married 70 years. The man is by trade a weaver, and, a short time since, his trade being bad, he actually started on tramp, seeking work ; and he is 50 active that lie can be backed to walk 30 miles a-day. Ile generally walks with both his hands in his pockets at a quick pace, and appears as active as a young lad. He is also a very clever angler, which he frequently practiscs. Ott lately being asked how his wife was, he replied " Oh I I left her washing."—Don. caster Gazette. Vie understand that Colonel Considine, with the permission of the English G overnment, has taken the command of the army of the Bey of Tunis, f or th e purpose o f organiziAg and disciplin'ng it. We believe we may a,id that thins g,!lant officer will hare the Brit;sh rank of Maior.General whilst thus serving on the Continent of Africa.— Observer. ROYAL ACADEM't . EXHIBITION. (FROM A COr.RESrONDENT.) The p-osperity of every ;:_istitution connected with the Arts' furnishes us with an unquestionable proof of onr national w2ll-• being—of the activity of cur conlma - ce—of our advaMceme:it in knowledge—and of what may perhaps be rega , ded as a yei; dcarer bleszinv, our internal and external tranyuilli y. Th e gained—the catalogue already in :.'111" hands—, we are ~leased on turning over its pages to discover nam es ren , o-vii has long since made familiar, and we rejo:ce to find their ow-nets once more at the post personal talent and 7 public opinion have as , igned them. Nor tin we regret to fin 4 these gentlemen surrounded . by others on whom fam , Ine.4 not' yet bestowed her garlands, persuaded, as we are, that tfh! 114 includes many whose desire for celebrity is founded on it s surest basis—true merit. While the hoary heads and num e roes honours of the veteran mingle in the ranks with the glow hag features cf the recruit, no fears can be entertained for this success of the cause. Front the workmen we judge of the work ; and our expectations are raised by the subjects they have chosen. We are promiand new versions from many a. well-known page of the world's history ; high and illustrious. personagos connected with the past and present are to be brought before us ; the thoughts of poets so long familiar to our meditation that they identify themselves with our own ; are to borrow a new form, be embodied, realized under the chisel and the brush ; beauty is to beam around us ; 0 314 swirly landscapes promise to console those who have left Nisy. fields and May gardens for the thronged rooms of the academy, In the great East, Room, among the earlier numbers we' have some landscapes by Sir A. W. Cab-ott, R. A. Not withstanding the rich colouring an Italian subject has livettsec" the artist to bestow on these pictures. they are far from being attractive. An unpleasant air of stiffness pervades them, Old the catalogue takes the pains to infOrrn US of the cause, " Ita- Han Composition, from materials, &c." The selection of materials is a principle practised on, and advocated pretty ge nerally but while opposed to the grand end of art—the faith ful rendering of nature, it often fails to attain its own purpose, the gratification of taste. These two objects are inseparable ; nature is the spring of beauty, and taste, however fastidious, must draw its resources thence. This system will, therefore, fail to produce chef d'oeuvres, although it may be found coro modions and successful in the fabrication of pictures. In No. 21, " There is life in the Old Dog yet," gOccin Landseer, we see united, the faults and excellencies of tifikt , greet artist. He has given the noble animal an express;ol, suiting the mournful drama in which he is the hero, and it is well worthy the author's profound studies of the physiog- Horny of animals. It has, however, too much brilliance in the colouring, a defect of no slight kind, from the inconvenience it causes the spectator. Hi small pictue of Lady Fitinarris is egceedingly beau tiful ; s Landscer's r lap-dogs should always repose on the laps of Landseer's ladies. The subject of No. 33, might. have made an interesting picture, but the stiff lady in green robes , ors a crimsoart couch, is intolerable. It is a difficult task to compote a q .° painting ; to avoid making a disagreeable one might, we Noa" g ine, be more easy. No. 45, by S. A. Hart, is a good modest picture. Ott the countenances of the various figures we read emotions we have often seen excited at readings of the immortal bard. No. 60, Sir D. Wilkie has done as much justi ce to this subject as could possibly be given to all.lcrhly interesting event, D. O'Connell, E:q., and T. Daniell, Esq. , a brother ay. tist, are among the portraits by the same han The little picture of " The Bride at her Toilet, unsatisfactory as a whole, has one head which rem ittds thoughf us ° so.ne of Wilkie's happiest strokes. first No. 72. This picture holds a high rank, if not the „ place in the Exhibi!ion. Too much cannot be said in of this masterly " Portrait of the Earl of Eldon." It is to be regretted that " Lord Encombe's Portrait" fall " below its admirable companion. No 137, " Salvator Rosa painting his friend Mosaniello./ is an interesting picture. Mr. i‘laclise has turned this Cif; cumstance to profit. Weighty projects may be read in tP of face of the Neapolitan fisherman, who, during the progr ess , i „, his portrait has fallen into a profound reverie. The tion of the model is caught by the artist, who points it out t his lovely mistress. The countenances are beautiful , t h c_ colours in keeping, and the attitudes, whether viewed apa rt as a group, natural and easy. We take advantage of this occasion to mention attet b r picture by the same hand, No. 512, " A Merry Christmas .9 the Baron's Hall." An elaborate composition, which the eye by gaudy colouring, and perplexes the mind by a n iu sec ere titude of figures. The name of the artist, however, attention, and as the eye wanders from the hearth to the d i . J a c ' s ,' from the dais to the group of maskers on the right, and t O accompanies the Boar's Head down the staircase, you stumble' an infinity of heads, which pop out from under tables, benche76 and between the shoulders of more prominent figures, in a °65 , 1 ,. diverting manner. When you have accomplished this joarn , : you have made, we believe, a hundred and seven acqua.inta n : l ; ? and have observed that every personage introduced ployed—that each countenance has its expression, its je" c/. .... 0 duality, and many of them great beauty—that nothing sb° in you as devoid of grace, while many of the groups are pleashig dazzlci! the extreme—that the soberness of age and hilarity of youth g.c_ e there, and you admire the talent displayed in this clever pieta°' It appears to us, however, that a greater sobriety of c olour" ing would have lessened the apparent confusion , which we fc' gret, as it may be in the way of the popularity of an able p 6." formance. W. Allan, R. A., in his view of the Slave 11 , 1afkmt at Constantinople, has avoided this evil. Here a nearly equal number of figures are introduced, and all with effect. The painter Has cleverly rendered the physiognomy of the crowd thronging the streets of Constantinople ; we can distinguish the countenance of many a true son of Stamboul among the multitude of every clime brought forward in this painting , Mr, Allen has brought with him from the East correct as well as vivid souvenirs. W. Hilton, R. A., has given us, No. 193, a Mag.- sacre of the Innocents." Much appears wanting in th this picture, but the artist has succeeded in drawing fro m visitor the emotion he intended—extreme horror. A painful anxiety it produced lest the poor mother, from the para Pet over which she leans, should fail with one hand to convey her infant into the friendly arms waiting to receive it below, while with the other she wards off the blow of the executioner. No. 270—" The Passions," is in our opinion a failure.. No. 323_. , The Saints Day," J. P. Knight, is a good Plc` ture ; character in many of the faces ; the whole in keeping; No. 324—Kennedy's " Scene from the Gentle Shepherd_ approaches the burlesque. Jenny is more coquettish than, simple. « ` , de l; T. J. Cooper has some very fair performances. lington at Waterloo," and a " Halt on the Fells," are very abi, e ;l No. 386 is another amusing and we ll- e xecuted picture. Englishman paying his reckoning on the left, and the Germ pedestrian students behind, arc e xc e llent. In the foregr ounc' i your admiration is divided bet we e n t wo p r i es ts and some h and " some women. 0 , No. 559—" The Baptism of Ben Jonson's Daughle r ",;, The great names co nnec t e d w i t h th e su bj ec t of this pie tur give it considerable interest. The Exhibition has no landscape of great merit, althoug h, we have performances by Stanfield, Callcott, and Lee. l iS J. 11.1.-W. Turner, R. A., has some gorgeous pictures for fis, admirers. Though alive to the dreamy softness of his 1, 10 : tances, we cannot approve the means he employs to attain . end. Eccentricity is a poor substitute for art. THE MINIATURE Room.--Have you ever seen an a vi b liP containing the choicest specimens of the feathered tribe ; t c t lightest and most graceful shapes ; their most splendid be, delicate hues Have you ever found yourself behin d t .5 , gclden lattices of an eastern s e raglio, basking beneath th e r, 33 , 1 of a galaxy of orients! eyes? Or, have you (for the questicia, are synonymous), e v er v i s i te d t h e m i n i ature room o f our A c demy ? Were our mi n i ature pa i nters to ec li pse a ll others t i le j c a would attain no g r ea t ac hi evement , f or t h ey h ave unequ' r ,,,. subjects from whence to derive and direct their inspirat' ° : r o, As usual, from golden and velvet frames a hundred face s looking upon us, radiant with English beauty. We w? - I , t , gladly make selecti ons , b u t th e t as k i s d angerous . We mto attribute to the artist the merit of his model. We ean' t however, forbear to mention one immeasurably above the tr.! . both for the beauty of his subjects and hi s s kill i n portray ing them—A. E. Chalon. Lady W. Stanhope and the Duchess of Sutherland bac ° . done well to select the services of such a mirror. We have at length reached the door by which we entere d ' Have our expectations been realized? Among the varietYA ohjeets the wand of art has raised before us, is there one ishv:.,, excellence has graven it deeply on our memories? Our c° ,j4 . elusion is unsatisfactory and chilling, but justice demand s ;If: verdict. The exhibition for 1838 has not spoken elogne °- to our hearts, Major-General Sir Maurice O'Connell, his fari' il Y' and suite, will take th e i r p a ssage by the s hip F a i r li e of 755 t 0 " 5 :13 ° Sydney. They will embark at Plymouth on the 2:3d of July, an d t°" ; c 1 at the Cape. Sir Maurice is a relation of 1). O'Connell, Esq has recently been appointed Commander of the Forces in Austral.' f POLES,--A ' DISTRESS OF TIDE POLES,--A few ph-fl ° i ts o ; six Poles were lying asleep on the ground in one of the pa r ' s f A metropolis, having no moans of otitaining any better lodg" ' „ . or policeman having come upon this unhappy group in his re nn " -l a i ce tiered them to rise and remove elsewhere. The Poles, from ig n°r' of the English language, were at first unable to make him rstand that they had no home, and were compelled to adopt their P rese"t It the want of a better bed. Other policemen, however, comi n g ~.,;sed was ascertained that the apparently refractory strangers were dii:tely Polish patriots, and with great humanity the policemen irolned'ad-ia collected a sum of money amongst themselves, which 0:10111"Y ° procuring lodgings for the homeless exiles. • In a letter received from Mr. Dunlop, IVl:P . : in ia t i s i t e week, he mentions that communication had been made to bbn subject of his resignation, and that he never had any intention of r es. : to ing. He also says, " there is nothing in my present state of health e s ' indeed,e fr shall t l hedo a n o o r t s b s e ay a Lille shallto a i t n te a n l d l iii3tryodaubtiileist,yas usual n eX t n s _ o ,,t season than I have been for years."—Apr Observer. a FEMALE CURIOSITY.—A lady, after nearing very impressive sermon, condemnatory of wicke loess in every sba i r i e l cool!) , exclaimed, " Well, after all, I should like to see every th ;ti for once !" Slee: SUICIDES IN CENTRAL INDIA. —Major ma.,, it appears, has kept a record of the number of native suicides cotn.:c be strooge.r mitted in the district under his charge in the year 1834-5. From . Major's statement it would seem that suicides were of daily oCeur' enc , c ' . that out of 40 cases which he had record,d, 30 were those of womco It is singular to observe on what slight occasions many of these a cts o Y f suicide have been perpetrated ; — som etimes for an attack of dysen te at other time s f o r a pain in the i n t es tines, and sometimes through briefr for b reavement. In India it has been calculated tha t there arc cverY y2ar forty suicides in a population of 250,000.—Parbury's Orieutol Herald. A SUCKER,—A man in Monroe, Iii;;Illand county: Ohio, the other day sucked five dozen and eight e gg s in less than t.- S minutes, fo, a wager of a shilling. The paragraph stating 0,11: headed "hard to beat." If the man were well beaten, he wouldl.e made a custard or